If you’ve ever dreamed of being swept off your feet by a sultry vampire or meeting a shapeshifting werewolf in the night, you’ve come to the right place.
These classic fantasy romance books blend your favorite fantastical elements with swoon-worthy romance plotlines. Follow along as shadowy ancient figures enter into forbidden love affairs with humans in Jacqueline Frank’s Nightwalker series and as a spoken word artist gets tangled up in love and the underworld in the Vampire Huntress Legend series from L.A. Banks.
The books balance the otherworldly with very human love and passion, creating the perfect escape from our normal, sometimes boring world. We’ve gathered together the best fantasy romance novels for all of your supernatural desires.
The best fantasy romance books balance fantastical elements with tantalizing stories of love and lust. If you’re looking for a new romantic paranormal series, try New York Times and USA Today-bestselling author Gena Showalter’s Lords of the Underworld books. If you would rather reach for a stand alone novel, you can’t go wrong with Sunshine by the award-winning Robin McKinley.
Fantasy romance is a literary genre encompassing novels that contain both elements of the fantastic and romantic plotlines. These books take traditional romance stories and place them in a world unrestricted by reality